Why doesn’t NHL broadcast LIVE the draft lottery number draws?

[SensHulk]

I feel the league can get more engagement by releasing all the number combinations for each team and basically get each fan base to track along if their ‘numbers’ get called LIVE, like a real jackpot lottery draw

They obviously film this ahead of time and make it available for transparency but the long drawn out countdown of the pre-flight results is just lame and boring. This would be super exciting as everyone finds out live on the spot

So in summary: just do whatever you’re doing in the video below but do it LIVE and release those number combos. Thoughts?

 

[Maple Leaf]

They have to rig it to help the suffering markets

 

[DaveG]

they did it once IIRC (Dahlin/Svechnikov draft I believe) and it was boring as f***.

 

[cptjeff]

They used to do that every year, the only year anyone ever watched was the first year when it was the Crosby drawing. After that, the ratings were beat out by replays of paint drying in 1987.

 

[CycloneSweep]

They used to. And it wasn’t exciting in the slightest.

 

[BLNY]

https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nhl...-conspiracy-theory/1t32a7sif60m21usxe6sislbh9

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Last year, they released ahead of time a booklet showing all the possible combinations and who was assigned which ones.

Is that what you're looking for?

 

[Perfect_Drug]

Last year, they released ahead of time a booklet showing all the possible combinations and who was assigned which ones.

Is that what you're looking for?

They should broadcast the printing of that booklet!

 

[Oilslick941611]

They should broadcast the printing of that booklet!

and the technical writing process and editing stages too!!!

 

[Ceremony]

Because it's rigged, obviously.

 

[McRpro]

They used to do that every year, the only year anyone ever watched was the first year when it was the Crosby drawing. After that, the ratings were beat out by replays of paint drying in 1987.

Nope the actual lottery drawing has never been shown live. The actual(boring) drawing is usually released to the public shortly after the winner is announced, at least since the McDavid lottery.

 

[Brodeur]

They could do it live, but the current way probably works well enough for the casual viewers. Every year the main board reminds me that some people still think there are ping pong balls with team logos on it.

And on the flip side, how much more exciting would it be? They draw 10-8-1-4, Bettman looks at the Ernst and Young guy who flips through the pages of combinations to tell him who won.

I suppose it'd be easy enough to have a computer program to show which teams were still "alive" after the third ball and what each team needs the fourth ball to be in order to win. But that might be too much for the average viewer to understand. I remember reading after a drawing from the Devils rep who was in the room in 2019 that the drawing happens so quickly that he didn't have time to process what the fourth ball needed to be for New Jersey to win.

Perhaps of minor concern is if the team that won the first draw also won the second draw which would result in a redraw.

 

[DuckDuckGetz]

They have to rig it to help the suffering markets

So glad the suffering market of Chicago won over the juggernauts of Anaheim, Columbus, or San Jose.

 

[Rpenny]

They have to rig it to help the suffering markets

Pens are in need to another saviour--we know it is coming

 

[HarrySPlinkett]

I feel the league can get more engagement by releasing all the number combinations for each team and basically get each fan base to track along if their ‘numbers’ get called LIVE, like a real jackpot lottery draw

They obviously film this ahead of time and make it available for transparency but the long drawn out countdown of the pre-flight results is just lame and boring. This would be super exciting as everyone finds out live on the spot

So in summary: just do whatever you’re doing in the video below but do it LIVE and release those number combos. Thoughts?

Harder to fix on live tv

 

[Burt Macklin]

They used to do that every year, the only year anyone ever watched was the first year when it was the Crosby drawing. After that, the ratings were beat out by replays of paint drying in 1987.

To be fair Bob Ross is/was more famous than any hockey player that ever existed

 

[krutovsdonut]

watching bettman root around for the frozen ping pong ball is not compelling tv.

 

[Romang67]

Would you watch it, OP?

They used to do that every year, the only year anyone ever watched was the first year when it was the Crosby drawing. After that, the ratings were beat out by replays of paint drying in 1987.

Good year for paint, to be fair.

 

[mouser]

Revealing the teams from worst to best makes for more interesting TV. Can't do that live with the current lottery ball system.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

I suppose it'd be easy enough to have a computer program to show which teams were still "alive" after the third ball and what each team needs the fourth ball to be in order to win. But that might be too much for the average viewer to understand. I remember reading after a drawing from the Devils rep who was in the room in 2019 that the drawing happens so quickly that he didn't have time to process what the fourth ball needed to be for New Jersey to win.

This. I guess to be really dramatic they could do the 1st drawing, showing who still had a chance to win after the 3rd ball, then stop and do interviews with a couple of the GMs of the still eligible teams and get their thoughts, go to a few of the really high draft picks and say what would you think about being drafted by _____? and ...... it would all be so contrived and people would bitch about it and there would be 987 posts of DRAW THE GODDAMN 4TH BALL ALREADY!

And, it still wouldn't stop people from claiming it was fixed because I wasn't able to watch the machine the entire time, how do we know they didn't swap balls out / weight all but the winning one down / [other outlandish claim about how this gets fixed]? Because, "obviously" all the GMs are in on the fix and they've been threatened to shut up about it, and they sit and watch idly as the representatives from Ernst & Young stand idly by while someone the league hired out comes in and puts the fix in to get the desired result.

Perhaps of minor concern is if the team that won the first draw also won the second draw which would result in a redraw.

That happened one of the years, where one of the drawing has to be redone multiple times to finally get someone who hadn't won a prior drawing. They announce it's a redraw, but the balls back into the machine, do it again, see what combination comes out.

 

[CTHabsfan]

It's boring TV and, even live, people would still think it's fixed.

 

[Oleksiak]

They have to keep redoing it until they get the result they want.

 

[RedHawkDown]

Anyone who thinks the lottery is rigged is delusional. If you think for a second the other owners are going to be fine with some other rich dude being gifted a money maker, you don’t understand how billionaires work.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

No, that's the beauty of the conspiracy. So many people have to be in the know and no one ever says anything, and some of these decisions are literally worth tens of millions of dollars but all the other owners are OK with not getting it because .... look, if I have to explain how this conspiracy works, you're never going to understand it.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Old guys handling balls?

Sounds like @SopelFanThe3rd Is eatin in front of the TV whenever they start airing it again!